#high

researchers discovered that people who have just consumed caffeinated drinks were more likely to be swayed by arguments about various controversial topics.55 In short, good evidence that there really is no such thing as a free lunch or an innocent cup of coffee. ↗

— Richard Wiseman

#change

His kiss was brutal, punishing, for making him feel like this. He was desperate. Out of control. Never had he experienced this kind of irrational urgency. He needed her. Like a starving man needed food. Like a dying man needed salvation. Now. Before everything went to hell. Before she could change her mind. ↗

— Monica McCarty

#monica-mccarty #patrick #change

Myth Number 4: Social Media Is the Shiny New Thing. Two Years from Now, That Bubble Will Burst Yes, it is the shiny new thing. No, two years from now, that bubble will not burst. There is no bubble. What social media represents is an evolution in the field of communications, just as the Internet and mobility before it. The tools will change, the platforms will evolve, but the way in which people communicate with other people through digital networks and electronic devices has been fundamentally transformed through the development of social media. We did not grow tired of the telephone, of the... ↗

— Olivier Blanchard

#change

If aught must be lost, ‘twill be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, ‘twill be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, ‘twill be my life for yours. I am Given. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#druid #highlander #karen-marie-moning #moning #vow

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA. ↗

— Fred Upton

#american consumer #carbon #consumer #cuts #electricity

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#highest mountain #may #mountain #over #step

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. ↗

— Huey Newton

#being #bring #chamber #community #consciousness

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#had #health #high #i #loved

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it. ↗

— Travis Barker

#got #high #i #junior #junior high

When you're on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes. ↗

— Joan Van Ark

#air #area #changes #drastic #high